Hit-Boy, 6lack, 03 Greedo and More – New Hip-Hop Projects

For the primary new music Friday of the spring season, the rap recreation continues to flourish in 2023. This spherical of music releases sees a brand new album from one of the gifted multi-hyphenates in the whole business, a clean crooner repping Atlanta delivers an LP for the primary time in over 4 years, a California spitter begins recent with a brand new mixtape and extra.

After firing on all inventive cylinders nonstop for the previous few years, Grammy Award-winning producer Hit-Boy does it once more along with his new solo album, Surf or Drown. Immediately on the heels of stellar joint albums with the likes of Nas, Musiq Soulchild and Pacman Da Gunman, the California native brings each his rhyming expertise and otherworldly manufacturing abilities to the forefront throughout the 11-track LP.

Surf or Drown is previewed by the album’s lead single, “Slipping Into Darkness,” which is a collab between Hit-Boy and The Alchemist that dropped final week and finds the 2 elite beat makers rhyming over one another’s manufacturing and mixing two separate compositions into one.

Whereas Hit-Boy masterfully rhymes over an album stuffed with self-produced sounds, the “2 Stay” rapper-producer does not go it alone. Apart from The Alchemist, visitor appearances on Surf or Drown embody Dom Kennedy, James Fauntleroy and Hit-Boy’s King’s Illness collaborator Nas, amongst others.

In talking with XXL about his unmatched inventive course of again in Could 2022, the three-time Grammy Award winner provided some perception into why he thinks he continues to rack up wins.

“Truthfully, retaining my head down and simply going,” defined Hit-Boy concerning his key to success. “So simple as that sounds. Specializing in the music and letting the music inform me what it truly is versus making an attempt to rely off my title or the truth that I’m Hit-Boy or the truth that I’ve labored with Jay-Z, Kanye, no matter. I deal with it like I by no means even did none of that. I simply lock in on daily basis and attempt to push myself to make higher music.”

6lack returns to the sport with Since I Have a Lover, the Spillage Village rapper-singer’s first full-length providing in practically 5 years. Striving to embody the trials, tribulations and triumphs the Baltimore native has skilled in recent times, 6lack’s third studio album carries followers by a journey of private progress in hopes of probably serving to them discover their very own moments of readability.

6lack’s 19-track opus is led by two beforehand launched singles, “Talkback” and “Deadly Attraction,” and seems to comply with the success of his first two albums, 2016’s Free 6lack and 2018’s East Atlanta Love Letter, which have been licensed platinum and gold by the RIAA, respectively.

In asserting Since I Have a Lover‘s first single, “Talkback,” by way of Instagram, 6lack defined the sentimental worth the track holds and the way he hopes others will take heed to it as technique of motivation.

“One in every of my favorites (all 19 songs from the album are my favourite on completely different days) however this one does the trick when I want to recollect my goal, ” wrote 6lack on March 10. “Use it to get nearer to your self. Use it to get nearer to the supply. Or simply play it for enjoyable. Peace.”

Simply two months after being launched from jail earlier this 12 months, 03 Greedo comes by with a brand new lease on life within the type of Midway There. 03 Greedo’s new mixtape spans over 33 tracks recorded in a matter of weeks following his launch on parole. The LP consists of the aptly titled lead single, “Bacc Like I By no means Left.” 

Midway There follows Greedo’s most up-to-date providing, Free 03, a joint mission alongside revered producer Mike Free that dropped again in January days previous to the Los Angeles spitter’s launch from jail. Free 03 incorporates a mixture of songs 03 Greedo recorded each inside jail partitions and earlier than he was sentenced to twenty years in 2018 on fees of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon and possession with intent to ship a managed substance.

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